Thundering A5s

By Austin "Juno" Flaherty

originally published in the April 2006 issue of Action Pursuit Games

I crouched quietly behind a series of fallen trees, watching patiently as the enemy players moved into positions at the bottom of the hill. I gripped my Tippmann A5 tightly and looked across to see my teammates in similar positions. We knew the woods like the back of our hand; every bunker was mapped out and all the angles were covered. We were in the position to strike.

We stood up and began to fire. Paintballs came down on the enemy like torrential rain. The sounds of our A5s were like the thunder of the storm. Markers and hands rose up out of bunkers and players walked off the field. At the end, we were left standing and no opposition remained. The "Tippinators" were victorious.

Could a Canadian Woodsball Team Successfully Storm the Speedball World?

Could a Canadian Woodsball Team Successfully Storm the Speedball World? By Jordan F. Ricks

Nestled in the picturesque countryside near Halifax, Canada, a battle-worn speedball field rests peacefully in the early morning shadows of towering elm trees and native oaks. The stained inflatable bunkers and trampled grass of Mersey Road Paintball projects a striking visual contrast to the serene backdrop of the untainted Nova Scotia landscape; yet, the speedball field somehow seems perfectly suited to exist alongside some of Mother Nature's finest work.

Tippinators Promote Paintball at Atlantic Outdoor Sports & RV Show

The Tippinators attended the 23rd Atlantic Outdoor Sports & RV Show held from March 16 to 19, 2006 at Exhibition Park in Halifax Nova Scotia and helped man the booth operated by Overkill Sportz. The show was a huge success with the team meeting and talking to thousands of paintballers and fans.

Scott 'Hired Gun' Knowles, Austin 'Juno' Flaherty and Bruce 'Charon' Johnston met and talked with current, past and future paintball players of all ages over two days. The team gave out hundreds of team stickers, promotional photographs and autographs to the many visitors to the booth while answering questions about the sport. The team posed for pictures with wide eyed kids who were holding their mil sim Tippmann A-5 markers that were sometimes taller then the kids holding them.

What Ever You Do, Don't Do This!

Humble Confessions of Players who have Learned - "What not to do in Paintball"

By Paul Knoch, Bruce "Charon" Johnston, and Jordan F. Ricks
originally published in the March 2006 issue of Paintball Sports Magazine

Everyone's history is stained with momentary episodes of intellectual challenge (a.k.a. stupidity); albeit, some tend to experience more frequent, and more pronounced degrees of ineptitude than others, but as humans, we're all prone to imperfection. However, some of us push the accepted norm of "imperfection" to new frontiers of sheer idiocy, and as a species, we continue to find ways to "go where no man has gone before", or would want to go again.